Re: getting img dimensions..

From:
dsjoblom@abo.fi
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
7 Aug 2006 09:44:07 -0700
Message-ID:
<1154969047.570353.247660@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>
Remi Arntzen wrote:

maya wrote:

can you do with java what you can do with PHP as described here?
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.getimagesize.php

 > >

namely, get image-dimensions.. is there a way to do this w/Java ON THE
SERVER, not in an applet or swing app..

thank you..


java.awt.image.BufferedImage image =
javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(java.io.File);
int imageWidth = image.getWidth();
int imageHeight = image.getHeight();


Although this works, it is a bit heavy handed. There's no reason to
read the whole image into memory. Try something like this instead:

        /**
     * Attempts to read image width and height from file.
     *
     * @param file File that contains image
     * @return image dimensions or null if file does not contain
     * an image or an error occurs while reading file.
     */
    public static Dimension readDimensions(File file)
    {
        ImageInputStream iis = null;
        ImageReader reader = null;
        try
        {
            iis = new FileImageInputStream(file);
            Iterator it = ImageIO.getImageReaders(iis);
            if (!it.hasNext())
                return null;

            reader = (ImageReader) it.next();
            reader.setInput(iis, true, true);

            return new Dimension(reader.getWidth(0), reader.getHeight(0));
        }
        catch (IOException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return null;
        }
        finally
        {
            try
            {
                if (reader != null)
                    reader.dispose();
                if (iis != null)
                    iis.close();
            }
            catch (IOException e)
            {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }

Regards,
Daniel Sj=F6blom

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